REGARDING the proposed roundabout at Miles Cross on the A35.

Many of us attended the public awareness and consultation days regarding the building of the re-cycling centre and expressed the view that a roundabout at Miles Cross was essential because it was a dangerous junction and would afford an easy return to Bridport after a visit to the tip. A left turn from the tip would also have saved the expensive and annoying set of traffic lights at the recycling centre. Our comments were met with ill concealed contempt by the representatives of the authorities. Any cursory risk assessment of the junction would require control measures such as a roundabout.

Moving on to the present day, we have watched the glacial progress towards the Vearse Farm development, known about for years, and now after a year of on and off lockdowns the authorities now wish to spend 6 months constructing a roundabout! Just when the economy is trying to recover.

It makes one wonder what on earth has been going on at Ivory Towers in Dorchester during a year of lockdowns I have been crossing the A35 for the year associated with flocks of sheep and cannot help wondering why the roundabout, long needed, was not constructed when the roads were completely devoid of traffic. It may be that minds were concentrated on justifying to the public how on earth a new county council office project could last for seven years only with all the associated disruption that the buildings cost.

We can now look forward to six months of hideous traffic congestion because of a lack of forward planning.

Robert John Ayers

Burton Bradstock